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Between the scorched sizzle of neck-wrecking trance beats, Essex, England’s Gold Panda allows acoustic guitar and delicate clatters of percussion to build a Four Tet–style pastoral tenderness on his debut, Lucky Shiner (Ghostly). Romantic and focused, the record displays a tight, savvy ear for bedroom editing; never overindulgent, the artist crafts his deep-breath pieces with precision and wisely refrains from letting elements—even the most wickedly righteous of grooves—plod on too long. Here, completing our breezy questionnaire, the musician plans a party with the Bee Gees and cracks a few jokes.

Life + TImes: What’s the first album you ever bought?
Gold Panda: I think it was The Best of Pavarotti.

L+T: What can you recall of your earliest musical memory?
GP: Pretending I was a villain tying a damsel to a railway track and then rescuing said distressed damsel to the theme of the “William Tell Overture.”

L+T: What music do you first remember meaning something significant in your life?
GP: I don’t really remember much of first memories and childhood and stuff; it wasn’t particularly exciting. I didn’t enjoy it much—but through no fault of my parents. I liked car hubcaps and to name all the cars by just looking at those.

L+T: What is the most beautiful sound you can think of?
GP: The sound of rain on the roof of my parents’ conservatory or the kettle boiling.

L+T: What movie always makes you cry?
GP: This Movie Was Made to Make You Cry starring Weepy Pete. It’s a classic.

L+T: What’s something people might not know about the album Lucky Shiner?
GP: There is a tape phase loop by [Simian Mobile Disco’s] James Shaw and I between “Before We Talked” and “Marriage”.

L+T: Your album shows a great ear for editing. How do you know when a song is done and there’s nothing more you can do to it?
GP: Because when something is wrong, you get bored of it and it never gets used. I don’t really know when something is unfinished or finished. I just give up making it and it sounds unfinished, and then a few days later I play it back and think, “Oh yeah, that is okay actually.”

L+T: In the movie of your life, who plays you?
GP: Me. Err. Because y’know. Oh, or Stan Laurel.

L+T: Complete the following sentence: “Being from Essex means I can always…”
GP: Buy a pimped-out Vaxhaull and not feel bad about it.

L+T: It’s a rock & roll dinner party. You can invite three rock stars, alive or dead. Who do you invite?
GP: The Bee Gees, including the dead one still in dead form.

Seriously I am all about voices but I can appreciate instrumentals so much from the artist side because words, beat, and music together just makes the expression on a track come to life for the artist and the audience. It’s really like no other feeling I can describe from this creative side besides the importance of the lyrics. Very rhythmatic but it makes me appreciate the down home feeling of hearing the Rebirth Band do their horn thing funky with the horns. Check out that Rebirth Band Do Whatcha Wanna yes yes

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